Doctor Mingyang Li has been learning Tai Chi Chuan from his grandfather since his childhood. He became the president of Tai Chi Chuan Association in Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1980s.

As teaching in Tsinghua University, he learned Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan and sword from Master Zhou, Pei-Fang who was the daughter of Master Zhou, Yuan-Long who, in turn, was one of the disciple of the Grand Master Yang, Cheng-Fu.

He came to the U.S. in 1985 as a physicist to join the Superconducting Super Collider National Laboratory in Dallas, Texas, and got the Ph. D. degree in 1990. Then he transferred to Silicon Valley and became an engineer in semiconductor industry since 1994.